Are there mule deer there? Its odd they offer any deer tags in roberts and counties that have about a 0.1% chance of ever seeing one. I figure it will take 8 plus to draw my walworth any deer tag.
They're pretty uncommon, but I guess they probably migrate along the river from time to time.
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I don't think the overall numbers are that bad WR. Every piece of private ground with food/water/cover holds the majority of the deer. You'll literally see hundreds of muleys and whitetails around here on any cultivated private land. The public land gets pounded for 4 months, plus all the shed hunters that start as early as late December now. Combine the constant pressure with the fact that most WR public ground lacks any feature that would attract deer, and its not that hard to understand why you don't see a lot of deer on public.
Ehd killed the deer in mass numbers last two years here in both dewey and corson. I have alot of friends and my brother in law ranches and the number of dead deer found during harvest last year was crazy. Add the reservation lack of management on top of that and most of those nr think they can hunt any land with the res tag and the deer numbers here are way down. I live 10 minutes from where i would hunt west river and 3 minutes east river and spend hours between driving for work and scouting for ducks and geese and every one in my group is all amazed at the lack of deer on both sides of the river. Father in law has lived here his whole life and says its as bad as he has ever seen.
